How to figure total sodium content in cure

[Mofatguy]

Can someone tell me how to figure total sodium content in the different curing methods i.e. morton tq andcure #1 recipes?

I'm supposed to be on low sodium for diastolic hf and my daughter in law is for diabetes.
I know I swell less on my home cured meats. Just would like to know so I can properly figure total daily salt intakes.

Thanks

 

[Mofatguy]

I'm talking like what you read on food label on store bought stuff.

I know what amounts to put in by using diggin dogs calculator. Just cornfused on how to make it per serving not per lb or kilograms.

I'm not the smartest redneck out there when it comes to figuring this kind of stuff.

Thanks

 

[S-met]

If you have a good kitchen scale, you can figure it out easily. Switching to metric is easier since its factors of 10, but can do imperial just as easy.

If you can figure what is in the whole thing, say 1000 milligrams sodium in kilogram (1000 gram) of meat, you weigh out your portion divided fromthe whole piece. Then divide that number into total sodium.

Eg, weigh 100g meat (about 3.5oz) would be total divided by weight or 1000g ÷ 100g=10
Take that number and divide into total sodium. 1000mg sodium ÷ 10=100mg sodium.

If you use a computer and have a spreadsheet program like excel, I can build you a dummy-resistant calculator where you would only have to input total sodium, total weight and portion weight and it will do the rest.

 

[DanMcG]

Are we making sausage? Or does DDF have more then one calculator?
Not sure what the answer would be if you want it per serving, for that we would need to know the portion size.
But as an example,
If you have a 10 pound batch of sausage (or meat) and you use 100 grams of salt, you'll have 10g of salt per pound.
And if you divide that one pound portion into 10 you'd have 1/10 of a pound serving portion with 1 gram of salt. which is 1000mg.
lastly that 1000 mg of salt is only 40% sodium the rest is chloride . so your 1/10 lb. serving has 400mg of sodium.

I hope this helps , I'm not the best guy to talk math, but I think this is what you're looking for.
And Like S-met said using all metric measure makes doing the math so much easier.